Thursday, November 20, 2008

This is what I wrote about MLD last year in the Paris Tokyo cassette compilation posted here last year:

MLD were Takayuki Shiraishi and Jun Sonohara. The duo also released a CD under the name Maximum Lunatic Desire and more recently as Musica Nova, contributing tracks to releases on labels NS-COM & Birds in Paradise. Shiraishi has many solo releases, some under his own name on NS-COM, BadOrb, etc... and also under others such as Planetoid on the Belgian ambient label - Apollo. It should also come as no surprise to readers of this site that there is a Vanity connection here. Shiraishi was also a member of the legendary BGM - contributing guitar, synths & vocals.

I compared their Paris Tokyo track to a cross between Liquid Liquid and early Meat Beat Manifesto. The A side of this single sounds like a harder Liquid Liquid with a rhythm and synth bass that reminds me of Disco Rough by Mathematiques Modernes. The B side is slower tempo and reminds me of the tension of earlier Einsturzende Neubauten.

Included in the post is a scan of the insert which appears to plug a cassette (I assume by MLD), also on Kitchen Records. I'm not sure about the rest of it.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I will be making another DJ appearance at King & I Thai next Tuesday, Nov.18th.

In appreciation of our recently elected #44, a local 'vintage' #44 graces the flyer this month.

King & I Thai is located in the Loring Park area of Minneapolis. The address is 1346 LaSalle ave.

The food is excellent and there are drink specials as well.

The music starts around 10 and goes till close (2 am). I will be spinning in a similar groove to the Champion Superior Soundsystem nights from my DC days. Lots of funky, jazzy grooves including Krautrock, Arfrican, soundtracks, music library LPs as well as some recently acquired Brazilian records form my recent trip to NYC.

STUFF: ENGINEERED BY YOSHIFUMI-NIIMURA. COVER PHOTO BY TATSUYA-SENZAKI. PRODUCED BY S.N. FACTORY 1981 OUT PUT RECORDS

The way ahead of it's time Sympathy Nervous LP on Vanity can be found here at Mutant Sounds, as well as a cassette they released on G.R.O.S.S. (run by Aube). After the Vanity label releases, these two Out Put 7"s and a couple cassettes, Sympathy Nervous appears to have not released anything for over 10 years. Sympathy Nervous re-emerged on (their own?) Negative Emission label in Japan, and then a couple years later on KK/Nova Zembla with a harder more contemporary industrial/techno style.

Yoshifumi Niimura has a website with a discography and mp3 excerpts of many tracks, including the Out Put Vol.2 contribution here. Mp3s of soundtrack material & sound effects are also there.